Thursday, April 6, 2017

Girard on the Woman Caught in Adultery

"Jesus transcends the Law, but in the Law's own sense and direction. He does this by appealing to the most humane aspect of the legal prescription, the aspect most foreign to the contagion of violence, which is the obligation of the two accusers to throw the first two stones. The Law deprives the accusers of a mimetic model."

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, trans. James G. Williams (New York: Orbis, 2001), pp. 58-59.

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